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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Brian Cushing has been cleared to play Sunday. (Bob Levey/Getty)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Texans' linebacker Brian Cushing has cleared the NFL's concussion protocols, and will be allowed to play at San Francisco on Sunday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cushing suffered a mild concussion near the end of Houston's overtime loss to Seattle last week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Deepi Sidhu of HoustonTexans.com reports that Cushing was confident he would be on the field this weekend:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CThere were some steps that I had to go through, but everything went real smooth. There were no setbacks or anything like that. Pretty much, the general consensus the whole time was that I would play.\u201DThe 5-year veteran currently leads the Texans defense with 25 tackles.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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